Junior Digital Designer

• Contract Type: Permanent / 37.5 hours per week
• Salary: £30,000 per annum
• Location: Smethwick B66 1BY
• Days of Work: Monday to Friday 9am - 5:30pm
• Hybrid Working: 3 days office based, 2 at home

Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career

DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible.

When joining DPD you are not just starting a job, you are vital to our journey to be the most customer centric, inclusive, sustainable and leading parcel delivery provider within the UK who embraces and drives change, placing our people and our customers at the heart of what we do.

Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!!!

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer

Job Description

The Junior Digital Designer plays a key role in bringing our brand to life across digital channels. Responsible for producing engaging static brand assets, dynamic animations, and reusable design templates, this role ensures all visual content is aligned with brand guidelines while helping scale our design operations for the wider business.

Key Responsibilities
Static Design & Brand Assets
● Produce high-quality static brand assets, infographics, carousel designs, and digital ad banners tailored for web, social media and paid marketing campaigns.
● Maintain strict adherence to brand guidelines across all deliverables, ensuring consistency in typography, color palettes and overall visual identity.
● Adapt existing design concepts across multiple formats, ratios and digital placements.

Video & Motion Graphics
● Design and animate video graphics, motion ads and animated elements for digital marketing campaigns.
● Storyboard and execute short-form video content optimised for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube.
● Collaborate with the wider team to edit and refine video assets for campaign launches.

Digital Asset Management & Systems
● Maintain and organise the central digital asset library, ensuring files are properly formatted, tagged and easily accessible.
● Design and build reusable, user-friendly social media and digital templates for non-design teams across the business.
● Establish best practices for file management, naming conventions and asset handoff procedures.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential

● Degree or equivalent qualification in Graphic Design, Digital Design, Visual Communication or a related discipline (or equivalent portfolio experience).
● Strong online portfolio showcasing static digital design, infographics, social media carousels and motion graphics/animation work.
● Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro or InDesign).
● Experience with digital design tools such as Figma or Canva.
● Solid understanding of digital design principles, grid systems, typography, color theory and visual hierarchy.
● Fundamental understanding of export formats, file compression and technical requirements across various digital and social platforms.

Demonstrate the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Caring and Accountability.

Desirable
● Basic understanding of UI/UX principles or basic HTML/CSS knowledge.
● Experience setting up and managing template libraries in Figma or Canva.

Key Competencies & Personal Attributes
● Attention to Detail: Meticulous eye for detail, ensuring zero-error delivery against brand guidelines.
● Creative Problem Solver: Ability to interpret creative briefs accurately and present visual solutions effectively.
● Time Management: Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
● Collaborative Mindset: Enthusiastic team player who takes feedback constructively and communicates clearly with cross-functional teams.

Additional Information

About our benefits:

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few…

• Holiday trading
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package 
• Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
• Vitality at Work
• Free On Site Parking 
• Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends 
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities. 

If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today